Asus workstation Socket AM2 board spotted

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:31 am

The TechReport wrote:One of our readers sent us some pictures revealing an unannounced Asus workstation board based on Socket AM2. Dubbed the M2N32-WS, the board uses an NVIDIA C51XE/MCP55 PXE chipset combo that's reportedly the high-end, dual 16-lane SLI version of NVIDIA's next-gen chipset. In addition to a pair of PCI Express x16 slots, the M2N32-WS supports up to 8GB of unbuffered DDR2-800 memory, and features a pair of PCI-X slots, two Gigabit LAN ports, eight-phase power, and an impressive ten 300MB/s Serial ATA ports, one of which is eSATA.

According to the spec sheet, six of the M2N32-WS's Serial ATA ports hang off the NVIDIA MCP55 PXE. The spec sheet also lists two identical Marvell PHY Gigabit Ethernet chips, suggesting that NVIDIA's new core logic has a pair of GigE MACs onboard. It looks like High Definition Audio is in the chipset, too, as the spec sheet sports an "Azalia" logo and lists an Analog Devices ADI 1988A codec.

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wuzy · Post by **wuzy** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:13 pm

At least they have PCI-X which is something I need. PCIe SCSI RAID card still too expensive for me.
Now if only they made dual AM2 or dual S939 as well that'll be sweeeeet.

Too bad the good'ol low-budget dual SocketA days are over.

pointreyes · Post by **pointreyes** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:23 pm

wuzy wrote:At least they have PCI-X which is something I need. PCIe SCSI RAID card still too expensive for me.

Exactly the same situation I'm in. I have a 133Mhz PCI-X SCSI controller and a 133Mhz PCI-X SATA RAID Controller that I would love to move to a workstation board.